Lori Grimes They Could Never Make Me Hate You

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I low key hate the Duffers. 😀

Eddie dying was not necessary, and the thing with Max was literally traumatic. AND THEY R SETTING UP ROBIN AND VICKIE EVEN THOUGH RONANCE IS RIGHT THERE. And OMG they messed up so bad with Byler it’s literally queerbait 😭

The only good thing that came from this finale was that it has raised my hopes for Elmax (if Max survives the coma WHICH SHE BETTER 😡)

otto hightower with alicent: your husband? 🤨 or you? 🙄 his daughter childhood companion? 👎🏻❌🏳️‍🌈

otto hightower with rhaenyra: queen alicent has not forgotten the love you once had for each other 🥺😔🏳️‍🌈!!

Can someone tell me where you guys are watching the newest episodes of Mircaulous Ladybug? Like is there a website or something

it's ridiculous and a little offensive honestly to say that byler can't happen in season 5 because it's "too late" and "there's not enough time" when the sad reality is that a lot of shows who introduced queer characters/relationships had to wait until the last humanly possible minute to introduce them out of fear of general audience dropping the show midway and the show getting cancelled if they did the same thing earlier on. i can think of at least three big shows that did it right off the top of my head and i'm sure i'll find more if i were to look for it. so stop saying shit like that and giving me reasons to be in your walls

Just saw a post saying that they HEADCANON Steve as having OCD and as someone who also has OCD this is now my new favorite headcanon.

alicent just hits different no one else in HotD is doing it like her. no one else is embodying the tragic figure like her. like 'what have i done? but what was expected of me?' 'all i wanted was for someone to say they were sorry for what happened to me.' 'our hearts were never one. i see that now.' like cool girlie I'm gonna start stigmata-ing in your name my nail beds are bleeding suddenly. follow the trail of blood to my unresting place we're forming a church in her name

finger-licking good

and its ontological opposite:

toe-sucking evil

his big doleful eyes and violently self-destructive tendencies have captivated me

Sorry people this is gonna be a long post, but I needed to vent.

A lot of people in the HOTD fandom are so quick to say that everything Alicent does "against" Rhaenyra is because she's judging her for not following the "rules" of the patriarchy, but imo the anger and conflict between them is way more personal than that. After Alicent is chosen by Viserys as his new wife, Rhaenyra, showing all of her immaturity (understandable, she's so young) feels betrayed by Alicent and starts treating her poorly. Of course Alicent in turn feels betrayed by her closest friend cause Rhaenyra abandoned her when she needed her the most. She was too sheltered and comfortable in her privilege to realize that other women cannot simply say no, Alicent was considered her father's property and then her husband's to do with as they pleased. She is continuously raped by a man she did not choose to marry, forced to carry child after child and on top of that she is refused the only comfort she had, her only friend. She never had the luxury of choice, but Rhaenyra in her naivety, still punished her for it. Alicent tried to hang on, still caring about Rhaenyra and still trying to reconcile with her and being constantly denied and judged by her.

Then, the moment Rhaenyra did something that would surely put her in trouble, she lied to Alicent's face. Alicent believed her and defended her with the king, insisting that Daemon must have lied, that her father must have been misinformed. Viserys knew this to be false, he knew Rhaenyra had lied, but still she was not punished for it. Instead Alicent is indirectly punished again, losing her only ally (Otto is a vile person, but still for Alicent he was the only piece of home, of familiarity she had) because of Rhaenyra. Naturally when she learned that Rhaenyra had lied to her, it was another huge blow to Alicent's heart, because trusting Rhaenyra has literally cost her the only bit of protection she felt that she had left. It's only natural at this point, that Otto's claims about Rheanyra's character began to take root in Alicent's mind. Rhaenyra proved that she could not be trusted and Alicent wasn't about to put her children's lives in the hands of someone who had betrayed her so. She realized that no one would protect her, not Viserys, not Rhaenyra, so she must do it herself.

From then on things were bound to go downhill cause Alicent began resenting Rhaenyra as she still remained oblivious to her privilege and she benefited from it again and again, perhaps even using her father's affection for her to her advantage. And Rhaenyra (understandably) grew tired of Alicent's treatment of her.

In light of that, what happened with Aemond inevitably had a massive impact on their situation, especially on Alicent, whose faith in Rhaenyra was already broken. Her son lost an eye (taken by one of Rhaenyra's kids). Rhaenyra refused to even acknowledge the magnitude of this offence, so quick to defend her kids (and their birthright), who would never do anything wrong and were simply defending themselves (despite there being 4 of them against Aemond) And even in such a dramatic circumstance, all Viserys cares about is protecting Rhaenyra from what essentially is, the truth.

So in my opinion Alicent is not only saying "it's not fair" because Rhaenyra constantly did things that were not "proper" and was never punished for it, what she's saying is more along the lines of "Rhaenyra abandoned me, betrayed me, punished me, hurt me, my son and others to fulfil her selfish goals and nobody ever punished her for it or even had the decency to admit that she might have been wrong".

Alicent is not questioning Rhaenyra's claim to the throne because she's a woman, she's questioning her integrity and wether or not she's trustworthy, she's doing it to protect herself and her children, who she feels could never be truly safe as long as Rhaenyra rules with Daemon by her side.

And feelings like these cannot be simply dismissed, not even with an apology, one must really work on rebuilding trust in each other in order to fix years of betrayal and mutual hurt and resentment, and sadly they just didn't get enough time to do it.

No because literally what we’re they thinking

genuinely. there is something So disgusting to me about them building an entire season around

a villain who targets people who are already struggling and implied to be suicidal

the unjust demonization, alienation, and persecution of people who are different, namely those who are poor, neurodivergent, gay, etc.

and then those two building blocks of the season end with:

a poor, abused, suicidal teenage girl who fought tooth and nail to keep going ultimately being tortured to death and then stuck in a coma with all of her fucking bones snapped and her sight potentially gone

a poor (idk maybe gay maybe neurodivergent depending on how intentional you think certain things are) boy who only wants to fucking graduate high school and be a better person than his shitty father being falsely accused of murder, hunted down by people who want to kill him, painted as a coward by the narrative for making reasonable choices, ultimately dying a pointless death and being remembered as a murderer.

like. not to even mention the way that a gay kid's struggle with his sexuality and feelings for his best friend are ultimately just used to push that friend closer to his girlfriend. like. god i'll probably end up writing something more articulate about this later but i am So deeply disappointed and i don't understand why the duffers would choose to engage with these themes if This is how they were gonna handle them.